Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. The Texas Attorney Generals Office is committed to ensuring that Texas elections are conducted using legally enacted redistricting maps.
No court has at any time found anything unlawful about the redistricting maps passed by the Texas Legislature" said Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott while attending oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court which granted the States emergency stay request after a federal district court improperly redrew redistricting maps enacted by the Texas Legislature.
The State of
Texas is urging the Supreme Court to overturn the interim map order and reinstate the States duly enacted maps until the preclearance process concludes.
It is judicial activism at its worst for judges to draw redistricting maps of their own choosing despite no finding of wrongdoing by the State of Texas. The court-drawn maps which give no deference to Texas duly enacted legislative plans cannot be allowed to stand."
In early December the U.S. Supreme Court granted Texas request for a stay of the interim redistricting plans imposed by a federal district court for the Texas
Senate Texas House of Representatives and U.S. House of Representatives.
By staying the district courts maps the Supreme Court prevented 2012 legislative and congressional elections from proceeding under the district courts interim redistricting plans.
The district courts interim redistricting plans wholly disregarded the will of the Texas Legislature despite the fact that there has been no finding by any court that a single aspect of Texas enacted plans is likely to violate federal law.
Senate Texas House of Representatives and U.S. House of Representatives.
By staying the district courts maps the Supreme Court prevented 2012 legislative and congressional elections from proceeding under the district courts interim redistricting plans.
The district courts interim redistricting plans wholly disregarded the will of the Texas Legislature despite the fact that there has been no finding by any court that a single aspect of Texas enacted plans is likely to violate federal law.
